The Marketplace of Ideas this week announced a conversation with New York University physicist Alan Sokal. It has been rescheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 11th.

In 1996, Sokal caused a stir on both sides of the Atlantic by submitting a logic-free parody of posmodern academic writing entitled “Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a transformative hermeneutics of quantum gravity” to the cultural studies journal Social Text, which then published it as a piece of serious scholarship. In his new book Beyond the Hoax, Sokal explores the greater, more troubling intellectual issues in science, philosophy and culture with which the hoax was concerned.